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Reflections on the Value of Ethnographic Re-Studies: Learning from the Past
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Hammersley, Martyn – International Journal of Social Research Methodology, 2016
This article investigates the value of ethnographic re-studies, and some of the theoretical and methodological issues that carrying out a re-study can generate. It is argued that the disputes that arose around some classic examples in anthropology and community studies are particularly illuminating. For example, Mead's work on Samoa and Redfield's…
Descriptors: Reflection, Ethnography, Anthropology, Community Study